Chapter 223 This is too peaceful

   A bonfire made of logs is burning.

   Mars floated into the sky with the heat wave.

  The herdsmen beat the leather drum and played the bone flute in front of the fire, and the young dancer with a light veil on her face performed a dance on the snow for the New Year.

  The guards, workers, and players who love to join in the fun living near the outpost also joined in with food and spirits bought from the market.

  Although there is only one glass of free red wine, there is a lot of distilled wine in the warehouse.

  A long time ago, players used Polygonum grass to make koji and croissants as materials to brew distilled wine.

  Compared with the red wine that takes time to taste, it is indeed this kind of hot-tasting, hot-blooded spirit, which is more popular among wastelanders.

   It's just that drinking the red and white together, indeed, few people can stand it.

  For a while, the market at the north gate was stumbling around.

  Boss Xia still wanted to drink, but he had already fallen asleep on the table.

  Worried that she was catching a cold, Xiaoyu, who is very caring, went to the bank to get a blanket, and covered her shoulders on tiptoe.

   There is a brazier under the table.

  Xiao Yu patted her on the back, and said in a tone like coaxing a child.

   "Don't drink so much next time, okay?"

   However, Boss Xia, who was already asleep, obviously didn't listen, and he didn't know what kind of dream he had. The corners of his lips curled up slightly, and he kept sipping.

   "Hey...I want more."

   Not far away, a taster was anxiously looking for a toilet.

   Farther away, the drake howled like his throat was on fire.

   "Water! Burp—water!"

   Ma Kabazi lay on the ground and yelled, until the boy on the construction site and a brick stuffed a lump of snow in his mouth, which made the guy physically stop.

   Lian’s big-eyed expression seemed to be a mask of pain, and he said while clutching his stomach.

   "Damn, what is it because of, I feel my stomach growling!"

  Water skiing on the edge looked at his swollen belly, and couldn't help but complain.

   "How much did you eat?"

   "Not much, just 100 million points," Lian Dayan hiccupped, and said in a vague voice, "Why do you have to eat it again in reality when you have already eaten it in the game?"

   Edge stroke: “…”

   Construction site boy and brick: "..."

  Is this a question that the Department of Intelligence can ask? ?

  Drunk Fang Chang sat crookedly on the wooden chair and started his improvisation.

  Listening to the iron-like percussion music and the bone flute of the nomads, his index finger beat the beat on the table, and he hummed the newly compiled ballad in his mouth.

   "Hmm..."

   "The gears of heaven fell into the furnace."

   "Boiling molten steel splashes from the pot."

   "The undead Scourge never stops."

   "We will reforge the kingdom of mortals."

   "..."

  The dry hoarse voice is like a saw blade pulling a violin, but in the rough accompaniment, there is unexpectedly a rhythm of ups and downs.

   It's like half a bottle of spirits in your throat.

  It is also like a forge with the sound of blacksmithing.

  Fang Chang forgot the words in the middle of singing, and the booing players next to him continued to make up, just like this one sentence after another, and suddenly came up with a song.

   It’s just that the further you go to the back, the more outrageous the style of painting. From the sacred Terra all the way to Ionia, the slogan "For the revival of the People's Federation" has also become "People live for XX".

  Although they couldn't understand what the residents in the shelter were singing, the surrounding aborigines also babbled and sang along.

  The singing dispelled the cold.

   It also blows away the barriers between people.

  Even with a completely different culture.

  People's longing for a better life and the pursuit of beautiful things are the same.

  The heat waves and the flames reflected on the faces, and everyone sitting together did not distinguish between each other and you and me at the moment.

  Drunk Zhao Shu patted Yu Hu on the shoulder, his face illuminated by the fire was as red as a monkey's butt.

   "Dude, am I right? Life is awesome here!"

  Yu Hu also drank a little too much, and burped drunkenly.

"you're right…"

   "Next year, next year I will definitely move in!"

   On the snow in front of the bonfire, a dance ended.

  The shy Frostspear girl bowed slightly.

   But people weren't going to just let her go.

   "One more!"

   "Bring your soulmate!"

"Whoa whoa!"

  Under the booing and instigation of the people, the young girl of the Frostspear Tribe mustered up her courage, but instead of choosing her dream lover in front of the bonfire, she walked to the dark blue power armor in a mysterious manner.

   "Can I ask you to dance?"

  There was a trace of apprehension in those eyes, like the unlucky kid who lost in truth or dare.

  Chu Guang gave her a slightly surprised look, and then joked in a gentle tone.

   "You can't dance in my outfit, find someone who can keep up with you."

  The young girl blushed, turned and ran away like a frightened animal.

  Heya, who was standing with her arms folded and observing, looked at Chu Guang curiously.

   "Why not dance one?"

   A little dissatisfied with this guy's eyes looking at the animal world, Chu Guang rolled his eyes at her.

   "Do you know how much power it takes to dance in a ton of power armor?"

It is not impossible to not turn on the power supply, it is probably similar to weight training, but even if 70 to 80% of the weight can be transferred to the supporting structure of the power armor, driving such a heavy armor without the help of a motor also requires a lot of strength .

   And it is easy to hurt others.

   It is not without reason that Chu Guang chose to stand there as a background board.

   "But in this way, you won't be able to enjoy the celebration." Heya reminded.

   "You don't understand, this is how I enjoy celebrations."

  For a manager, what could make him feel more happy than watching the settlement live and work in peace and contentment?

  This is the highest level of enjoyment.

   Heya fell into deep thought.

   That expression seems to recall the past of No. 117 shelter.

   At this moment, Yin Fang's teasing came from behind him.

   "You broke the girl's heart."

  Chu Guang ignored his teasing, but gave him a strange look.

   "Why are you back again?"

   "I'm just going back to get something."

  Yin Fang took out a small robot with four short legs, a square head and a square brain from behind.

   "The academy doesn't celebrate the New Year, it only celebrates great discoveries, but you seem to have a custom of celebrating the New Year here... It just so happens that I finished it too, so let's treat it as a New Year's gift for you."

  Chu Guang's face was full of surprise, and he reached out to take the little robot over.

  Different from the original one, there is an extra camera on the boxy head.

   Now it’s not just laser mapping nearby terrain, users who wear neural connection devices can also share their vision with the help of its camera.

  Although it is only a small change, the practicality has more than doubled.

   Now this little robot is much more powerful than the original one!

   Looking at Chu Guang who was playing with the little robot in his hand with great interest, Yin Fang continued.

   "Reptile, that's what I call it, or you have a better name. Compared with the original little robot, it has an extra eye, but other things haven't changed much."

   "Thank you." Chu Guang sincerely expressed his thanks.

  Yin Fang coughed lightly and said.

   "Don't thank me, I got all the materials from you, I just helped you deal with it."

   Speaking of this, he remembered another important thing, so he continued.

   "By the way, its power source is a metal-hydrogen battery... You don't seem to have a lot of reserves in your shelter, only forty or fifty. If you have a chance, you can get more. That's a good thing."

  Chu Guang made a helpless expression.

   "I don't need you to tell me this."

  The metal hydrogen battery produced by the company contains a number of Class A technologies, which are very popular everywhere.

  At present, what Jushicheng can independently produce is solid-state hydrogen batteries. If you want to buy metal hydrogen batteries, you can only expect some caravans from the east coast to bring some.

  Chu Guang bought dozens of them from the Pioneer before, planning to use them as exoskeletons.

  But right now, what his players need most is not exoskeletons, but cheap and easy-to-use equipment, as well as industrial equipment that can produce these equipment, so this matter has been shelved.

  Looking at the robot in his hand, Chu Guang suddenly remembered a very serious matter.

   "If this thing explodes..."

  Yin Fang answered with a relaxed tone.

   "It's roughly equivalent to 6 kilograms of T-en T, and the power should be able to cover... er, a football field?"

  Chu Guang: "???"

   What the hell? !

   Putting the robot into Yin Fang's hands without saying a word, Chu Guang quietly moved half a step to the side.

   "You hold it for me first."

  Looking at the returned robot in his hand, Yin Fang was stunned for a moment, with a dumbfounding expression on his face.

   "Don't get excited... This thing is not so easy to explode. And 6 kg T'en T is a theoretical equivalent, without a primer and a combustion aid, how can it really reach that power... This is not a bomb."

  There are at least two B-level technologies between the metal hydrogen battery and the metal hydrogen shell. The oxygen in the air is simply not enough to completely react the hydrogen in the metal state.

   And you are afraid of a hammer in power armor!

   But Chu Guang didn't want to hear so many explanations from him, he just wanted to stay away from this guy.

Um.

   One more rule will be added in the future.

   Prohibit metal hydrogen powered robots and exoskeletons from staying in shelters for extended periods of time.

  …

  Abandoned department store.

   There are more than a thousand beds crowded in the empty hall.

  The New Year's songs do not float here, and no one sings, only the crackling fire, and the mother coaxing the child to sleep.

  This is a temporary shelter for the refugees, and they can only stay here temporarily before the end of the cold winter.

  Thanks to the wood sent by the blue coats, the survivors who temporarily lived here used the wood to repair the damaged walls and floor-to-ceiling doors and windows, and finally made it airtight.

   Some of the remaining wood was chopped into firewood, or burned into charcoal, and thrown into the red brick stove together with the fire.

  The blazing flame brought a ray of hard-won light and warmth to the empty hall in winter.

  Although the environment here is crude, it is at least free from snow and hunger.

  Refugees from the central and northern parts of the River Valley Province, survivors of the Winter Willow camp and the battery factory, are very grateful to those blue coats.

  Fleeing troops from the front lines, marauders of the Bonechewers, and chaos everywhere destroyed their homes, burning their fields and houses.

  If it weren't for the blue coats, they might have either been frozen to death on the road, or entered the frying pan of the marauders.

   Of course, they can only represent themselves.

   Not everyone is grateful for the status quo.

Of the five survivor settlements in the first batch of relocation plans, only two were actually attacked by predators, and the residents of the other three survivor settlements did not even see the presence of predators. Been there, moved here only out of fear.

   It has been more than a month since the first blizzard, and even though no one died in the cold, some people suffered frostbite from working in the cold.

   The terrible weather still has no end in sight, but the supply of materials is getting tighter and tighter, and rumors that there is not much food are often heard.

   After a long time, it is inevitable that some people will whisper in their hearts.

  Is relocation really necessary?

   Those survivor settlements that have not been relocated seem to be doing well.

   "I'm always worried that the house will collapse."

  Looking at the stone chips falling from the ceiling, the man wrapped in a torn bedding couldn't help but say.

  In fact, he didn't really think that the building would collapse, but just wanted to find something unlucky to vent his dissatisfaction with the bad life.

  However, these words affected the people around them somewhat.

  Looking at the dilapidated ceiling, many people showed worried expressions on their faces, exchanged scared eyes, and whispered in low voices.

   "How long do we have to stay here..."

   "Those blue coats say it's spring."

   "Why don't you let us live in Changjiu Farm? This is different from what was agreed at the beginning."

   "They said there wasn't enough room..."

   "Heh, it's not that we can't build our own house, I think they just want to keep the trouble away."

  Many of them are residents of the House of the Scavengers and the Mount Hope Cooperative.

  Compared with the Winter Willow Camp, the Battery Factory, and the Highway Town, these two survivor settlements are located a little further to the south, and one is hidden on the edge of the city, and the other is hidden in the forest.

   Now some people feel that those looters may not be able to find their home so easily.

   After all, their eyes do not grow in the sky, and not all survivor settlements will be looted...

  Ma Zhanqiu, the village head of the Dongliu camp, saw that the dissatisfaction was spreading, and in order to avoid affecting his own people, he immediately came out to appease everyone.

   "Don't say such things, it hasn't collapsed for more than two hundred years, how could it collapse at this time!"

  At this time, a discordant voice suddenly came from the side.

   "That's not good."

   "This year's snow is so heavy, what if the building blows down?"

  The person who spoke was Ding Tian from the House of Scavengers, and one of the more influential scavengers there. Ma Zhanqiu recognized this person.

   Seeing him frowning, Ma Zhanqiu said in a deep voice.

   "What do you want to say?"

  The man wrapped in a fur coat pouted.

   "What do I want to say? I also want to ask, what are we for? To fight against those marauders from the north?"

   "Or to work for those blue coats?"

  Ma Zhanqiu was taken aback.

   Before the old man came back to his senses, someone followed closely behind him.

   "Maybe the Bonechewers won't come after all."

   "That's right, isn't there still eight survivors who haven't moved their residences? I think they are staying in their own homes quite well..."

  Although everyone has food here, staying here is not free.

  They need to go to work in a factory, and then get a few coins that they don't know what to do with, and they can't buy what they need.

  Even though the blue coats promised that the money would be useful in the spring of the coming year, in their eyes it was no different from painting cakes.

  Since those blue coats are really going to pay them, why don't they use chips?

   If not, toilet paper from the east coast will do, at least maybe someone will ask for it.

   Complaints are pervasive.

   This is not a day or two.

  Out of fear of the Bonechewer tribe, they accepted the placement of the blue coats and moved here according to the arrangement.

   But it's been a month.

  Many people did not see the looters.

   Except for the intensified blizzard, I don’t know when it will be a hard day, nothing happened.

   Some people even speculate maliciously, whether the so-called Bonechewing Tribe's invasion of Qingquan City was a lie from the very beginning.

  The sleeping child was awakened and cried, and the mother coaxed her in a panic, not daring to say anything to the noisy people.

  Looking at the few people who were getting more and more emotional, some survivors who had seen it with their own eyes and even had wounds on their bodies wanted to refute, but they didn't dare to speak out.

   Just then, someone stepped forward.

   "My eldest brother is dead."

  Maybe I heard the word death.

   There was a loud noise.

   Facing the eyes of the pair looking over, Ma Ma was silent for a while, and then slowly continued.

   "Marauders bayoneted his stomach open because he refused to surrender."

   Ma Zhanqiu sighed softly and closed his eyes in pain.

   That's his child.

   is also the last thing he wants to recall.

   Ma Ma paused, and continued.

   "I didn't know until later, and I didn't even see his body until the end."

   "I have never seen the Marauders of the Bonechewers with my own eyes, and I have only heard a few rumors of their brutality."

   "But you're going to say it's a lie, so tell me, where is my big brother? Where are those who didn't make it here?"

   "To expect them not to come back is not only childish but ridiculous, not even self-deceiving."

  "The residents of the refuge, they could have stayed out of the matter, as long as the door is closed, let alone the people of the Bonechewer tribe, even if the legion drives the tanks above their heads, they can sit back and relax and wait until those people die of old age come out."

  No one can open the shelter from the outside until the shelter is actively opened.

   In the wasteland, this is accepted common sense.

   Seeing that the number of people who supported him was reduced by half in an instant, Ding Tian bit the bullet and was about to say something when a mother holding a child also stood up.

   "I've seen it too."

   She was sitting next to the group at the battery factory.

  The voice trembled, like a wounded lioness, her eyes were fixed on the man, and she continued.

   "We retreated to the warehouse at that time, and there was no way to go. The looters surrounding us rushed up round after round, and they didn't take a step back in order to protect us..."

   “…died right in front of us.”

  She couldn't go on.

  The hall was silent.

  Even the noisiest people, being watched by pairs of eyes, could not help but silence.

   People recalled the horror of that day.

   also recalled those heroes.

  Ding Tian's Adam's Apple twitched, and a flash of anger from embarrassment flashed across his face.

  He knew he was wrong.

   But that doesn't mean he likes being educated.

  Especially someone who looks much weaker than him.

  Looking at the two groups of people in the stalemate, Ye Xiao, who folded his arms, shook his head, and was about to go forward to say something, but was stopped by Hook standing beside him.

   "What are you going to do?" said the lame old man, staring at him.

   Ye Xiao said straightforwardly.

   "Someone needs to persuade them. I'm worried that they will turn into a physical conflict in a while."

   This is the wasteland.

   No amount of words are as effective as fists.

  Ye Nan who was standing aside heard his son's words, and shook his head slightly.

   "This is not something we should manage."

"But…"

   "Go notify the guards and let them handle it."

   At this time, the main entrance of the lobby on the first floor of the department store suddenly opened.

  The whistling north wind brought in a few snow leaves.

  Two guards wearing black coats and carrying rifles walked in carrying an iron frame. There is some carbon in the iron shelf.

   Behind them, there are several residents of the refuge.

  The energetic temperament, even if they don't wear a blue coat, they can recognize it.

"Happy New Year!"

   "New Year's gift is here! Keep everyone waiting!"

  Cat’s ears shook happily, but in the end the hat was thrown off, and with a sound of sesame paste, it boldly bent down to pick it up.

  Tail standing at the door, turned his head and glanced at Sisi next to him.

   "Tail thought it was some kind of mission, but it turned out to be running errands."

  The agreed hidden mission!

  She even brought her equipment!

   "Emmm...Compared to being forced to go offline because of a bad stomach, Sisi thinks it would be better for Awei to blow the cold wind."

  Everyone in the hall was stunned.

  Including the two groups of people in the confrontation, they also froze there.

  They didn't understand what the blue coats were saying at all.

   Fortunately, at this time, the guard who put down the barbecue grill came to the rescue in time, and stepped forward to speak in human language.

   "Today is the last day of 211!"

   "The manager asked me to send you New Year's gifts. Thank you for your cooperation. We have survived the most difficult days."

  Everyone in the shelter whispered.

"new Year's gift?"

"what is that?"

  They understood this time, but their faces were still blank.

  The young guard did not explain, and politely signaled to the "player" wearing a chef's hat next to him that he could start.

  Light the charcoal fire, use a brush to brush a layer of oil on the iron rack with tomato scrambled eggs, and then put the palm-sized crab cakes on the iron rack.

   "Everyone line up and come one by one."

   "Stuff is enough."

   "Everyone has a share!"

  The guards maintained the order at the scene and led everyone to form a long queue.

  The oily sound is sizzling, the smell of meat permeates the hall, and the soft and delicious crab cakes have an indescribable taste of happiness.

   There is still meat to eat!

   All rumors about food shortages are self-defeating.

   Almost everyone's eyes were imprinted with longing.

  Looking at the meatloaf in his hand, Ding Tian couldn't help but feel ashamed, and those who followed him before were all silent and lowered their heads to eat the pie.

   Standing at the door and looking hungry, Tail couldn't help swallowing, and stared straight at the barbecue grill.

   "Is there a tail too?"

  Sisi tugged at her clothes.

   "It's time to go, everyone at Changjiu Farm is still waiting. If you want to eat, I will go offline later and I will order you a takeaway."

   "The tail wants beef flavor!"

   Hey!

  This person—no, this tail!

  Sisi looked at her in surprise.

   "I'm just being polite."

  Tail: "Chicken flavor is also available!"

  Siss: "..."

  Outside the door.

   On the trunk of the truck.

  A big rat wearing a coat is rubbing his hands in the cold wind.

  Beside him are the supplies that will be sent to Changjiu Farm.

  Because he was worried that his appearance would scare the residents in the shelter, he was left to watch the supplies on the truck to prevent aliens from coming to steal them.

  Before those people left, they repeatedly told him not to eat the mission props.

   These guys really are!

  I am not a real mouse!

  Where is the trust between people!

but…

  It smells so good.

   Is it gnocchi?

  Feeling the impulse of biological instinct, the strong man decided not to look or think that way, and instead looked at the street beside him.

  The street is very quiet.

  The white snow under the moonlight is peaceful.

   Even the shadows of alien species can’t be seen here. If it weren’t for the damaged buildings and walls, it would be impossible to think that this place is a wasteland.

   Sure enough, it’s time to enter the server by yourself, isn’t it?

  I heard that the previous versions fought every day, the front fell behind and the back followed. All the professional players who fought in life copied the guys, and the resurrection coins were almost finished.

   I wish I had come in earlier.

  Looking at the quiet street, the big mouse sighed softly and spoke out.

   "It's too peaceful."

-

   (Next chapter around eleven o'clock!)

  (end of this chapter)